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Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Fun Ways to Say Thanks with Fiskars & GlueArts

Did you know...Fiskars has been around since 1649 and today is one of the oldest businesses in the western world.

In 1977 Fiskars' expansion began with the founding of a scissors factory in the United States.

The color, Fiskars Orange®, was officially registered as a trademark in Finland in 2003 and in the US 2007.

So tell us...do you own any Fiskars orange?

Today we have two fun projects to share with you! Designer Jenny Chesnick has a fun, quick and easy craft that any recipient would love to receive. Or have the kids help make these and fill with treats...bubblegum, taffy, life savers, little toys, bouncy balls... and use as a reward!

Designer Ania Lexander has an incredible photo book that makes you want to run right out and take some fun photobook pictures with the ones you love!

Doesn't always seem like we are searching for quick and easy thank you gifts or bridal shower gifts, teach gifts? This is a quick and simple way to dress up some inexpensive jars using some vinyl and your favorite Fiskars punches.

1. I started with my cloud punch (favorite!) to cut clouds from White Accent it All Vinyl. The punches easily squeeze right through this stuff.

2. Using my Silhouette I cut out grass and the sentiment.

3. Next peal off your vinyl and apply to your jar!

4. Once I finished up my vinyl I moved on to the tag. Using the postage stamp punch I cut out two tags.

5. Wrap twine around your lid and run your tags through the twine to hang. Using a button I ran my twine through and tied a bow to keep it all secure.

6. Add your candy or what not and enjoy!

Photobooth-mini

GlueArts Designer: Ania Lexander

The idea of this was to do a "in the clouds" mini with these photobooth-photos from a recent together-forever-celebration I shot. It'll be given to the couple w/the CD with the photos from their day - hence there's still room for journaling.

Start with printing and cutting out your photos. I ALWAYS use my Fiskateers-scissors for cutting out photos and smaller pieces of paper. Love it!

For my mini I cut out 5x7.5" rectangles, as well as 4x6" sheets of white cardstock which had splatches of glimmer mist on. My patterned papers were from lots of various manufacturers, but with the white cardstock on top of each page made the pages fairly uniform.

Use the borderpunch to create fun borders for the top and bottom section.

Squeeze out various clouds from the scraps for embellishments.

I stapled the photos onto the white cardstock, added rubons or stickers and adhered it to the page with extreme tac. Finally I added the clouds w/raisens - I have about 24 pages, which would make this an extremely thick mini if I used the regular U Cut it foam. With raisens I still got the slight dimension I wanted for the clouds without making it too thick.

For the frontpage I played with double clouds '

So tell us...are you a Fiskars fan? Wishing for some new tools? YOU can win some of their awesome products! Fiskars was incredibly generous and is allowing us to giveaway to one of you...

And guess what....we need to include some GlueArts adhesives with this prize! So we'll ALSO include our Glue Glider Pro and a roll of our Adhesive Squares! Now you're definitely ready to craft!

Last but not least....you can see me, the Glue Girl, as the Guest Designer this month for Fiskars! Here's a peek of one of my projects I shared with them! Just visit this link to see all the projects with the tutorials!

Be sure to check back in with us tomorrow for more Fiskars projects from our Glue Girls Design Team! We'll have another project from our fab Guest Designer Stephenie Hamen and don't forget to visit Fiskars Crafts for more creative ideas!!

58 comments:

Love Fiskars products! My son was with me at my LSS the other day and he was pointing out the Fiskars stuff I had, it was kind of funny actually! LOVE that jar idea, I am saving that one! Creative stuff!!

Fabulous projects today! Love the jars - so cute and neverending uses! That photo book is priceless - what an amazing idea! Love that border punch! i don't own any border punches and i am dying for several of them :) i love this one! Thanks for the chance to win all of these lovely goodies and of course I always want Glue Arts!

LOVE the jar pproject!! So cute, but so simple too!! =) I LOVE the book, the added punches are so cute!! THANKS for the chance to win!! I'd LOVE it!! Have a FABULOUS DAY!! P.S CONGRATS on the Guest Designer spot at Fiskars!! =)

love the jar idea - and yeas I do have orange for fabric - I so would love to win1 i can use some more orange and glue arts. thanks for the opportunity and from sharing such great fun projects time and time again.

What beautiful and creative projects! I make cute gift-giving projects throughout the school year for the teachers at my son's school, I think it brings a smile to their day to feel remembered and appreciated. Thanks for the great gift ideas and the generous giveaways!!

I've never seen the cloud punch before - how fun! I love Fiskars products! And I've had my eye on a Glue Glider Pro, I'm just waiting to "sneak" it into our budget! Thanks for the chance to win some great products from some wonderful companies!

I am a huge fiskars fan! Those little orange scissors are my go to scissors! I have waaay more punches then I should! LOL I would love that cloud punch though--and the stamp border yes!!! Great ideas and giveaway!

I am a big Fiskars fan, but I recently had a punch break - and the store won't exchange it. I need to contact them about this problem. I only used it 3 times! But I love their hand friend punches and the glue glider pro too!!

what a bunch of fabulous ideas! I love Fiskars, they definitely have some of the MOST awesome punches, paper trimmers, and scissors in the world! I think I still have my very first Fiskars sewing scissors I purchased many years ago. You know...the huge scissors with the orange handle. Love it!

The jar is so cute and I love the mini album - the punchy border is great!!!Yes, I am a Fiskars Fan - I love my Fiskars tools and would love the chance to win such a fabulous prize :)... I'm a Fiskateer too and it is great to see the famous orange & green handled scissors having a workout :)